Book description
The Chihuahuan desert is the second largest in North America and its
northern, or United States, portion occupies southeastern Arizona,
southern New Mexico, and Texas west of the Pecos River. Hot, dry, and
windy, the desert is home to a unique community of plants that have
adapted to its harsh environment.
Visitors to the area will find this volume a practical identification
guide, offering descriptions of seventy-five representative species of
northern Chihuahuan Desert plants. Each illustrated profile includes
the plant's common and Latin name and a brief description, as well as
its role in human history, its relationship to the surrounding flora
and fauna, medicinal uses, nutritional value, habitat, toxicity, and
other interesting facts.
Carolyn Dodson is retired from the faculty of the libraries of the
University of New Mexico and has taught wildflower identification
classes in the UNM Continuing Education Division for twenty-five years.
She coauthored
Central New Mexico Gardens
(with the Native Plant Society) and
Mountain Wildflowers of the
Southern Rockies
(with William W. Dunmire). Robert DeWitt Ivey is an eminent New Mexico
botanist and author of the acclaimed
Flowering Plants of New Mexico
.
